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2008 - CANADA - COLOUR - 75 MINUTES
A FILM BY NIK SHEEHAN
With a custom-made dream machine in tow, director Nik Sheehan takes us on a journey into the life of Brion Gysin - his art, his complex ideas, and his friendships with some of the 20th century's key counterculture figures.
Theatrical Starts November 22, 2023
USA – 1967 – 124 MIN – BLACK & WHITE - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY EMILE DE ANTONIO
BASED ON THE BOOK BY MARK LANE
Mark Lane and de Antonio, for the first time, create a vivid, frank legal brief which asks the still unanswered question: who killed John F. Kennedy?
A critique of the Warren Commission’s report on the murder of President John F. Kennedy.
*Restored to 4K for the 60th anniversary of the JFK assassination
Theatrical Starts November 14, 2023
1990 - CANADA - 77 MINUTES - ENGLISH
A FILM BY GUY MADDIN
Literally a film like no other, this weird, wild and extraordinary photoplay is both melodrama and deadpan parody. With striking black and white cinematography and stylized set design, Guy Maddin tells a tale of obsessive love in the arctic Russian town of Archangel, where Bolsheviks, White Russians and German Huns converge during World War I.
Theatrical starts September 30, 2022
1988 - 64 MINUTES - B&W - 4K - STEREO - MANITOBA, CANADA - IN ENGLISH + ICELANDIC
A FILM BY GUY MADDIN
FEATURING: KYLE MCCULLOCH, MICHAEL GOTTLI, ANGELA HECK, MARGARET ANNE MACLEOD, HEATHER NEALE, DAVID NEALE, CAROLINE BONNER
Set during a smallpox epidemic in the village of Gimli, Manitoba near the turn of the century, Tales From The Gimli Hospitalis a dreamlike, elliptical film which explores the jealousy and madness instilled in two men who share a hospital room "in a Gimli we no longer know." The two men, Einar (Kyle McCulloch) and Gunnar (Michael Gottli) are friends at first, until they reveal their darkest secrets to each other. Tales of creeping pestilence, unconsummated passions, reckless envy and necrophilia are told, climaxing in a deadly battle between the two patients, now rivals. Does a better world await these two lost souls on Earth...or in Heaven?
2014 - COLOUR - CANADA - 88 MINUTES
A FILM BY JODY SHAPIRO
"Burt's Buzz" takes an intimate look at the world of Burt Shavitz, the face and co-founder of Burt's Bees, exploring his fascinating and unique life. Exposing the collision between business and personal values, the film is a compelling and fascinating portrait of this highly idiosyncratic pioneer, and a revealing study of what it means to be a living icon.
2019 - CANADA - 79 MINUTES - COLOUR
A FILM BY ALBERT NERENBERG AND NIK SHEEHAN
From antiquity’s first fart joke to the ubiquitous whoopee cushion, the act of flatus both amuses and dismays... and now may contribute to civilization’s demise. Who Farted? is a frightening, illuminating, and funny journey through the absurd reality of 21st Century human survival.
1996 - CANADA
A FILM BY NIK SHEEHAN
A post-modern documentary about the meaning and nature of love from a gay perspective.
109 MINUTES - CANADA - 1997
A FILM BY NIK SHEEHAN
A biography of the writer Scott Symons.
49 MINUTES - CANADA - 1997
A FILM BY NIK SHEEHAN
Paul Young teaches his final year at the Ontario College of Art.
1985 - CANADA - COLOUR - 60 MINUTES
A FILM BY NIK SHEEHAN
The first Canadian film on the subject of AIDS. In 1985-86 it was featured in festivals and theatres around the world. "No Sad Songs" attracted much critical attention for its sardonic dramatic performances which are interwoven throughout the documentary footage. The film centres on Jim Black, 37, and his views on the premature death in store for him. Catherine Hunt, who has a brother in the U.S. with the illness, speaks with remarkable emotion of the values such a crisis brings out in families and friends.
90 MINUTES - USA - 2007
A FILM BY RANI SINGH
FEATURING: BECK, NICK CAVE, ELVIS COSTELLO, DAVID JOHANSEN, GREIL MARCUS, BETH ORTON, LOU REED, ALLEN GINSBERG, BILL IVEY, HARRY SMITH, HAL WILLNER, BOB NEUWIRTH, SMOKEY HORMEL, PHILLIP GLASS, P. ADAMS SITNEY, PERCY HEATH, STEVE EARLE, PETRA HADEN, LUIS KEMNITZER, MOSES ASCH, JOHN COHEN, ED SANDERS
Prepare for an eclectic journey through ‘The Old Weird America’. Rani Singh's fast-paced and varied documentary tracks the history of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music from its initial compilation of 78 rpm records from rural Americana to its release on Folkways Records in 1952. Instrumental in helping inspire the urban folk revival of the 1960s, the Anthology continues to influence modern music. An incredible set of interviews reveal the lasting impact of the Anthology and Harry Smith. Popular music professor Greil Marcus takes us through the intricacies of the Anthology: its history, context and influence on music in particular as well as society as a whole. This film is also, in a way, a monument to the man Harry Smith, whose unique view on life as not only a collector, but also as one of the most important experimental film makers of the last century, shines through.
90 MINUTES - USA - 2007
A FILM BY RANI SINGH
FEATURING: BECK, NICK CAVE, ELVIS COSTELLO, DAVID JOHANSEN, GREIL MARCUS, BETH ORTON, LOU REED, ALLEN GINSBERG, BILL IVEY, HARRY SMITH, HAL WILLNER, BOB NEUWIRTH, SMOKEY HORMEL, PHILLIP GLASS, P. ADAMS SITNEY, PERCY HEATH, STEVE EARLE, PETRA HADEN, LUIS KEMNITZER, MOSES ASCH, JOHN COHEN, ED SANDERS
Prepare for an eclectic journey through ‘The Old Weird America’. Rani Singh's fast-paced and varied documentary tracks the history of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music from its initial compilation of 78 rpm records from rural Americana to its release on Folkways Records in 1952. Instrumental in helping inspire the urban folk revival of the 1960s, the Anthology continues to influence modern music. An incredible set of interviews reveal the lasting impact of the Anthology and Harry Smith. Popular music professor Greil Marcus takes us through the intricacies of the Anthology: its history, context and influence on music in particular as well as society as a whole. This film is also, in a way, a monument to the man Harry Smith, whose unique view on life as not only a collector, but also as one of the most important experimental film makers of the last century, shines through.
2002 - 5 MINUTES - COLOUR - CANADA
A FILM BY LARRY WEINSTEIN
VOCALISTS: BARBARA HANNIGAN, DOUG MACNAUGHTON
A humourous "domestic opera" about an upwardly mobile couple in their mid thirties who can't resolve an argument about the cap being left off the toothpaste.
CANADA - COLOUR - 1995
A FILM BY LARRY WEINSTEIN
A full length original tragic-comic opera with sends up a great political leader whose downfall was his colossal ego.
52 MINUTES - CANADA - COLOUR - 2001
A FILM BY LARRY WEINSTEIN
A loving musical tone poem at once tragic and celebratory that evokes and explores Ravel's illness-plagued final years, when he was able to produce music but couldn't write it down.
103 MINUTES - CANADA - COLOUR - 1987
A FILM BY LARRY WEINSTEIN
A brilliant portrait of the composer's elusive life with a huge array of his greatest works.
83 MINUTES - CANADA - COLOUR - 1992
A FILM BY LARRY WEINSTEIN
CANADA - COLOUR - 2011
A FILM BY LARRY WEINSTEIN
Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney bemoans a lack of appreciation from his countrymen.
CANADA - COLOUR - 1997 - 4K RESTORATION
A FILM BY LARRY WEINSTEIN
Tan Dun's "Symphony 1997" premieres as Hong Kong switches from British to Chinese rule.
58 MINUTES - CANADA - COLOUR - 1989
A FILM BY LARRY WEINSTEIN
Writers, artists, and musicians celebrate the whale.
